Tanım
•Xiongnu; synonym of Xiongnu
Etimoloji
Borrowed from Mongolian ᠬᠣᠨᠨᠣ (qonno) meaning "people" in an old language used by people of the northern steppes referred to as the Northerners (or Northern-lineage; Korean 북방계 (bukbanggye), Mandarin 北方系 (běifāngxì), Japanese 北方系 (Hoppōkei)). Learned from Latin Hunni, romanization, and Russian Хунну (Xunnu), cyrillization of the word. Doublet of Xiongnu and Hun, romanization of Mandarin 匈奴…